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Celebrity Death Certificates

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"Celebrity Death Certificates" takes a VERY different approach to examining the deaths of numerous celebrities by providing simple clean copies of their actual death certificates. I enjoyed reading these legal documents, which I found easy to decipher, for their bare bone facts. Steen's legwork saved me time and money digging them up on my own; there are literally thousands of dollars worth of documentation in this volume if one wanted to start a similar collection. Steen, a death care professional, refrains from making editorial comments which works nicely within this format. The array of celebrities is diverse, 182 in all, and he includes many "posthumous reunions" such as the cast of "I Love Lucy," husband and wife teams like Ozzie & Harriet Nelson and George Burns & Gracie Allen; dueling gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons; the list goes on and on. This book stands out as THE conversation piece on my Hollywood history library shelves. I'm looking forward to purchasing and perusing Vol. 2 later this year.

This book is just what it says...celebrity death certificates. The one reviewer doesn't know what he's saying when he says it's a waste and the entries are blurry. It isn't true. Some of the certificates are OLD and handwritten and when copied this makes it sometimes tough to decipher but generally this isn't the case. If you have some medical knowledge, etc. you're way ahead.And if you love collecting death certificates as I do this is a wonderful book to have as there are so many bound together. You will find yourself looking for one, but keeping turning the pages to check out others. I spend a half an hour or more everytime I pick it up.

For any baby boomer, this book is a walk down memory lane for all the folks who kept us clued to the television or entertained us in movie theaters during our growing-up years.

It is one of those books that you hate to admit to anyone that you just couldn't put it down. As you go from page to paget, each name on a death certificate sparks a memory and many times brings a smile.

The biography at the end is a help too. I am gald that they did not try and put each one of the same page as the death certificate. That would have been a distraction from the certificate itself.

This extraordinary effort is far more then just a book of brief bios. This is a "tabletop" book that not only includes the bios BUT A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL DEATH CERTIFICATE! That alone is worth reading as it reveals much of the "personal" info re the deceased.

This book is a must have for ALL Hollywood celeb buffs that are also interested in the trivia surrounding the mystique of Hollywood and its movers and shakers.

I'm certain that the author has accumulated more then the stated amount of certificates, in this first printing, and I can hardly wait for upcoming volumes to help fill in my research library.

What a waste of money. The copies are blurry and in many cases illegible. It would help if there was some kind of guide to tell you what the questions being answered are. Also don't rely on the short biographies at the end as there are mistakes.

Mr. Steen takes you glimpsing into the origin of Hollywood personalities that have recently died and those deaths of long ago.

Frankly, it's riveting enough that once you start reading it-you can't put it down.

You find yourself poking through the private information contained in the death certificate and skimming through the bios and history of the deceased.

Can't wait for the sequel!